Because it was necessary to supplement Wei Wuji's troops and defend Jinhua Mansion, Zhang Qiang's firecracker army had already transferred two hundred households to supplement them, so Zhang Qiang's establishment was actually not a full two-thousand-household firecracker army.

Now that he had captured 800 arquebuses this time, he could reorganize the previous musketeers and make up for the number of troops that had been transferred.

Eight hundred can make three hundred musketeers. The rest of the cavalry units equipped with their own soldiers, a personal army of one hundred and fifty men, can equip at least sixty-six cavalrymen with muskets, and yes, these cavalry can be turned into chasseurs.

Attacking the enemy with muskets from a distance is more efficient than bows and arrows, and the bows and arrows of the cavalry on horseback have a short range, and their lethality is certainly not as good as that of muskets.

And the archers, shoot seven or eight arrows, the enemy is protected by armor, and three or four arrows are hung on their bodies, and they are still alive and well, and they pull out their sabers to fight with you, unless they hit the vital point, otherwise, the damage is not great.

Zhang Qiang felt that the chassars were more effective than the cavalry with pure cold weapons.

Therefore, he gradually transformed his cavalry unit into European chasers.

"What's next?" Zhang Qiang also asked himself.

Du Ge said: "Who will guard this place, this is an important passage connecting our hinterland?" ”

Zhang Qiang looked at him, "You come to guard, give you a thousand households, you have less than a thousand households left, I will take it, and leave the more than 1,000 people who have just been turned into auxiliaries for you, and organize them into a thousand households, and you will lead the troops of these two thousand households to guard here." You use the firecrackers I replaced to form a firecracker army, just a strengthened hundred households. ”

After removing Du Ge's 2,000 households, Zhang Qiang directly led the troops, and increased a lot of troops at once, including a 1,000-household musket battalion, a 300-household musket battalion, 2 100-household cavalry battalions, a 150-person personal guard cavalry squadron, plus 400 Du Ge's troops and cold weapons troops, Zhang Qiang's troops were expanded to 3,800 troops.

Counting Zhao Siyang's more than 900 artillery units and Xuanyuan Longfei's two thousand mixed troops, Zhang Qiang's troops still had more than 6,900 troops.

There are still more than 100 auxiliary soldiers left, as well as more than 4,000 people's troops, and the strength is still very large.

"You hurry up here to clear out the bandits, hunt down the deserters, suppress the remnants of the Qing army who want to rebel in the locality, and at the same time recruit some young and strong, at least give me another two thousand households to supplement the problem of our lack of garrison troops." Zhang Qiang added another order to Du Ge.

"Don't worry, my lord, the last general will definitely guard this place and do what you have to say." Du Ge said.

"Well, keep an eye on Lin Yangsheng and He Jin at the same time, don't let them have the slightest disagreement, contact Hu Kui more, and ensure the safety of my back." Zhang Qiang said again.

Du Ge didn't take Zhang Qiang's words again, but asked, "My lord, when will we continue to march next?" ”

Zhang Qiang said with a smile: "We are waiting here, since the enemy has received the news of our army's attack, he will definitely send a large army to attack, or he will strengthen his precautions and give the enemy half a month, if the enemy does not come to attack, we will go to Taizhou Fucheng." ”

Zhang Qiang's purpose is to wait for the materials to be transported in the rear, as well as 5,000 prisoners and 2,000 people.

In a flash, half a month passed, five thousand captives were sent over, and there were two hundred household guards, because every place must be equipped with a garrison, a set of administrative teams, used to manage the place, Du Ge These generals cannot be used to manage the place.

They are ready to attack at any time, and they will fight against the enemy.

In the past half month, Zhang Qiang successfully trained 500 of Du Ge's 300 households to become elite firecrackers.

And then directly into their own troops.

The remaining half of the 100 households, Zhang Qiang supplemented them to Zhao Siyang's artillery unit, making the artillery battalion more than 1,000 people, although it was not far from the strength of 1,000 households, but it was not bad.

There was also a hundred households that were lost to Xuanyuan Longfei to manage, and Xuanyuan Longfei's strength increased to two thousand households and one hundred households.

The expected enemy's attacking troops did not wait, and Zhang Qiang could only collect ships and go to Linhai County along the Lingjiang River.

Together with the people, nearly 20,000 troops, marched in mightily, boarded the ship, and attacked.

Nearly 2,000 large and small boats almost filled the surface of the Lingjiang River for four or five miles.

It's not a naval warship, but a civilian canopy boat, a flat-bottomed boat, and some larger fast crab boats, which are basically not on the table.

The boat traveled for three days, continuous operations, conquered a number of villages and towns under the rule of the enemy along the river, each big town left a general flag of troops, plus some Ming troops surrendered, some people, and then set sail again, along the road to attack the enemy garrison on both sides, and finally arrived at Yongfeng Town, the enemy's naval division has been Shuojiang River, causing heavy losses to the ships in front, hundreds of ships were blown up and sunk, attacked, when Zhang Qiang did not have a sailor, he could only set sail and land.

Placing artillery on the coast to bombard the enemy ships, the enemy's naval divisions retreated under the heavy fire of the artillery battalions along the coast.

Leaving most of the artillery battalion, Zhang Qiang led his troops along the west bank, crossed mountains and mountains, and avoided the enemy's naval division troops and advanced towards Linhai County.

Two days later, they arrived outside the county town of Linhai and confronted the enemy across the river.

At this time, Zhang Qiang found that there was nothing he could do in the face of the surging Lingjiang River and the towering ancient city wall built by the mountains and rivers on the opposite side.

The Qing army sailors cruising on the river drove by proudly, firing two cannons from time to time, and some young and strong soldiers in Zhang Qiang's army were full of panic in their eyes, and the formation was messy several times.

Shielding the sun with your hands, observing the ancient city wall, you can actually see the figure of the Hongyi cannon, it seems that due to the addition of the rebel generals of the Ming Dynasty, the firearms of the Ming Dynasty were used by the Tartars, which caused more than a little inconvenience to the army of the Ming Dynasty, it was simply a catastrophe.

I don't have a Hongyi cannon in my hand, even if I have, it is impossible to shoot at the Hongyi cannon on the enemy's city wall, because of the height, my own Hongyi cannon has to advance to a very close place, and the enemy's Hongyi cannon fires at the enemy within the range, which is a very disadvantaged thing, and even if the Hongyi cannon is brought this time, then a few Hongyi cannons will also suffer a lot from firing at the Hongyi cannon on the opponent's city wall.

The enemy's city wall is shaking, the Ming Dynasty's red coat armor, hat and helmet abound, I don't know that I think it is the Ming army will guard their own territory, if it is not for the city head obviously standing on the top of many lightning helmets, inserted red tassels, bird feathers, wearing the Qing army's red robes and official uniforms of the Qing army, Zhang Qiang almost thinks that it is still the Ming Dynasty army.

Xuanyuan Longfei stood beside Zhang Qiang, looked at the Qing soldiers who were defending the city wall one by one on the opposite side, and whispered: "My lord, this battle is not easy to fight, the city is strong and the artillery is sharp, and there are sailors to help, Lingjiang is dangerous, not to mention that our troops of less than 10,000 people, even if we come to 100,000, it is impossible to conquer it in a short time." ”

Zhang Qiang sneered, "In this case, let's first deal with the enemy army on the west bank, plow all the west bank for me, all those who are inclined to the Qing army, all arrested, and all those who still remember the Ming Dynasty will be exempted from forced labor and taxes, and we will first stabilize all the territory on the west bank and Yongfeng Town towards Jinhua Mansion." ”

Xuanyuan Longfei immediately shouted: "In this way, the enemy must take the initiative to attack us, otherwise, we will develop territory under their noses, and it is impossible for them not to be in a hurry, and it is impossible to ignore it." ”

Zhang Qiang touched his chin and said with a smile: "The enemy is self-righteous, and he will definitely not wait too long, in this way, we will turn the disadvantage into an advantage, and we will defeat the enemy on the plains on the west bank." ”